After Bai Liu came out, he handed the experimental diary to Mu Ke.

The joint experimental data report, a series of text materials searched at the observatory, and the basic teaching materials that Mu Ke found in the cabin of a graduate student at the observatory, all of which required him to understand and read before he could read other materials.

Bai Liu asked: "How long will it take you to finish reading it?"

Looking at the thick stack of books and various professional materials in front of him, this is equivalent to asking Mu Ke to re-study a subject. He estimated and gave a serious answer: "It will take about three or four days."

Bai Liu nodded in understanding: "How much food is left in this observation station?"

Mu Ke replied: "Excluding expired and spoiled food, there are still about 70 kilograms of food. According to the food consumption of one person per day, about 1 kilogram, it can last about 15 days."

"Then we have to leave before you finish translating." Bai Liu thought for a moment and made a quick decision, "We can't take a snowmobile either. The speed is too slow. Taishan Station is more than a thousand kilometers away from here. The average speed of a snowmobile is only 30 to 40 kilometers. It will take more than 30 days to make a round trip. The food and fuel will not last long. We have to take a helicopter."

Tang Er frowned: "But if the helicopter flies hard, it's easy for something to go wrong in this weather."

"I know." Bai Liu glanced at Tang Erda calmly, "Don't forget that our game identities are a group of "passionate explorers". We will not pursue a more stable way of travel, especially this way is more likely to exhaust us to death."

Tang Er was beaten up and stopped talking - he was thinking from the perspective of a staff member of the observation station rather than an explorer, which was indeed more realistic, but this was a game.

Games don't need to be realistic.

Bai Liu looked around and asked, "Any other objections?"

No one answered.

Bai Liu ordered in an orderly manner: "Mu Sicheng, drag the food and fuel onto the plane, Tang Erda, repair the helicopter and snowmobile, Mu Ke and Liu Jiayi, prepare food for a week at the observation post and store it near the living quarters, and put a week's worth of food on the snowmobile. If we haven't returned within a week, you will drive to the nearest other observation post, and remember to fire your guns in the car and the living quarters."

At this point, Bai Liu paused and reminded, "There is a monster in the basement that was killed by Captain Tang. Although it is currently in a [dead] state, there are usually more abnormal situations in high-risk places like laboratories. Just in case, I put two barrels of fuel in the basement. If there is any abnormality, you can just throw it in and explode it, and drive away..."

"We will carry a satellite phone on the helicopter, so that we can get in touch with them immediately if anything happens."

Bai Liu shook the satellite phone in his hand: "But according to the consistent design of the game, there is a 95% chance that our phone will lose contact, so all the subsequent plans will be planned according to the different situations before and after we lose contact..."

An hour later.

Bai Liu was wearing thick cold-proof clothing, a down bladder, waist and knee pads, and a pair of spiked shoes that could be used for walking and climbing on ice. He leaned on the edge of the helicopter, waved to Liu Jiayi and Mu Ke below, and closed the outer door of the helicopter.

Tang Er was sitting in the driver's seat adjusting the data on the instrument panel, while the back seat was piled with food packages.

Mu Sicheng had difficulty stretching his limbs among the pile of packages. He had to squeeze in to survive and use his arms and legs to create a small space for himself.

The oars spun into the air, making a loud noise. Bai Liu withdrew his gaze from outside, moved his cold fingers, and exhaled a breath of frosty white air.

"Put on dark goggles." Tang Er reminded from the front seat, "Prevent snow blindness. Also, if any part of your body becomes so cold that you lose feeling, you must warm it up immediately. Otherwise, blood clots will form in your blood and cause limb stiffness and amputation is necessary to save it."

Mu Sicheng was so cold that he was shaking like crazy. His voice was trembling and his hands were rubbing together desperately: "No, didn't I bring Liu Jiayi's antidote? Can't it cure this kind of frostbite?"

Liu Jiayi gave each of the three of them a bottle of antidote.

"Of course you can." Bai Liu glanced at Mu Sicheng, "But the antidote will only work if you are so cold that your health points drop - by that time you may have been frozen to the point of unconsciousness."

"..." Mu Sicheng wanted to cry, "I fucking hate Antarctica!"

The plane flew through the vast expanse of snow and had to make emergency landings twice due to strong winds.

Tang Erda had the foresight to replace the helicopter's landing gear with a sled-type one, which would reduce the risk of taking off and landing.

However, the biggest risk for helicopter takeoff and landing is not the landing gear, or even the wind, but the ice surface - ice cracks are the biggest threat to helicopter takeoff and landing.

If the helicopter had landed on an ice crack, it would have been very likely to be destroyed and people on board would have died. But strangely, Bai Liu and his team were fortunately not on the ice surface where they landed twice, and they successfully approached the vicinity of Taishan Station within half a day.

When Bai Liu was still a dozen kilometers away from Taishan Station, he requested a third landing - this time there were still no ice cracks. Bai Liu even went down to check it himself and walked around randomly, but he didn't find any ice cracks.

Although Tang Erda told Bai Liu that it was not common to just walk into the cracks on the ice, there was one factor he forgot to consider - that is, this was a game, and Bai Liu was a player with a luck value of 0 in this game.

It is normal for a player who has set up the game like this to see ice cracks everywhere.

But from the time Bai Liu entered the game until now, he has never encountered him once.

Bai Liu looked up and with the help of a telescope he could see in the distance a Taishan Station sitting on the dimly glowing horizon of the snowfield. He could vaguely see lights coming through the windows of the observation station and light smoke and hot air rising from the chimney on the roof.

This made him narrow his eyes: "There is someone in Taishan Station."

"So that's why you decided to land here?" Tang Er turned his head to look at Bai Liu, asking for his next instructions, "Should we go in directly?"

"Don't go in directly. Look around here, especially where I walked past, to see if there are any ice cracks." Bai Liu turned his head to look at the ground. Through the goggles, the snow reflected dark light in his eyes. "——Captain Tang, if there were ice cracks in these places, is there any way to make them disappear?"

Tang Erda was stunned: "If it is done manually, you can fill it with snow and then pour water on it to make the ice surface solid, but the workload is too large. It takes several hours to fill a 20-meter deep and narrow ice crack. It is very likely that you will freeze to death if you stay outside for a few hours in such cold weather, and there is also the influence of strong winds, so no one does this..."

"What if the stuff that fills these ice cracks is not afraid of the cold at all?" Bai Liu asked slowly. He squatted on one foot and tapped the ice with his fingers. "I remember we brought sensors that can detect images hundreds or thousands of meters below the ice, right?"

Mu Sicheng and Tang Erda took the hydraulic hammer and sensors off the helicopter, and according to the instructions in the manual that Mu Ke had translated for them, placed the sensors a few hundred meters around the landing site of the helicopter.

As the sensor makes a gentle "beep" measurement sound, the image sent back by the sensor appears on the instrument's visual dial like a CT scan, showing the cross-section of the ice surface layer by layer, getting deeper and deeper.

When the image on the cross-section reached a certain position, it seemed to have detected something strange, something different from rocks and ice, and issued a sharp alarm of abnormal measurement. Then, the feedback that followed formed an image that made Mu Sicheng gasp in surprise and his whole body became even colder.

The image shows various scattered human silhouettes, struggling under the ice in strange and twisted postures, with their limbs broken and bent backwards, their heads and necks tilted and flat, and their waists and abdomens twisted 180 degrees, like frogs that have been cut open for experiments, with their spines cut off and then turned over and nailed to a wooden board.

These people seemed to be the useless experimental waste after some terrible experiment, and were thrown into the ice crevasse and then buried with snow - the ice crevasse was their experimental wasteland and cemetery.

Even if the sensor could not send back clear images of their faces, Mu Sicheng could fully imagine their painful expressions.

There are a few "human-shaped frogs" whose appearance is relatively intact. It is very likely that they were still alive when they were thrown into the ice crevasse. From the silhouettes, we can see that they are still trying hard to climb up, with their hands and feet in a very vigorous climbing posture.

But before he could climb up, he was frozen to death in the ice when he was about fifteen meters away from the ice surface.

This reminded Mu Sicheng of the ghost story Tang Er had told him. He couldn't help but cover himself with his clothes and leaned closer to Bai Liu, who looked calm and unperturbed. "...Do you think this is a member of the Taishan Observation Station?"

"I'm not sure." Bai Liu's eyes stopped on the dial, "Maybe, maybe not."

Mu Sicheng asked: "...What do you mean?"

"The number of people doesn't match." Bai Liu pointed at the strange black figures, "There are already more than a hundred people here, which is more than the entire Taishan Station has."

Bai Liu glanced at Mu Sicheng and said, "There are still people in Taishan Station, so there are two possibilities—"

"One possibility is that this place is just like the Edmund Observatory. There is a scientist who is armed and suspicious. He thinks that the others are mentally ill and aggressive and difficult to control. So he dealt with the others in the Observatory and those who came to the Taishan Station for help later, and then threw them here."

Mu Sicheng swallowed his saliva and asked nervously: "There is another possibility?"

Bai Liu turned his gaze back to the instrument panel. "There is another possibility. All the people in Taishan Station are dead. Some monsters conducted cruel exploration experiments on them and left them here. These monsters are now occupying and operating Taishan Station."

Mu Sicheng couldn't help but ask, "But there are more than a hundred corpses here. Didn't you say that there are more than the total number of people at Taishan Station? What are those extra bodies?"

Bai Liu replied lightly, "Of course it's the monsters themselves."

"?!" Mu Sicheng was shocked. After hesitating for two seconds, he reacted horribly, "Are you saying that these monsters can turn into humans?!"

Bai Liu said: "It seems that the monster we are facing this time not only has strong learning differentiation and environmental adaptability, but also has the cunning to disguise itself as a human to deceive and capture prey. At the same time, it also has a certain tendency to survive the fittest and kill each other..."

He smiled in amusement. "Wow, that sounds like an evolved human."